Douglas Bowman : Cranking (by Merlin Mann) - Merlin writes so beautifully.
“And, although I’m confident that I will always think my daughter is The Greatest Thing in the Universe, I’m also all too aware that this feeling will not always be reciprocated in quite that same way or wit

Douglas Bowman : 30-Second Rule for App Success - Those of you who saw my talks at either Future of Web Design in NYC, or at Webstock in Wellington may remember a segment where I urged delivering value as quickly as possible. In that segment, I compared the act of taking and sharing a photo with Hipstama

Douglas Bowman : A friend in need - Below is our friend Brandi, and her 7-year-old son, Luke Johnston. Luke was just diagnosed with cancer for the second time in his life. No 7-year-old should need to know cancer this well. And no mother should need to be faced with such an incredibly chall

Douglas Bowman : First Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out - Go, Ari.
In December, he [Ari Ne’eman] was nominated by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD), a panel that advises the President and Congress on ways of reforming health care, schools, support services and employment policy to

Douglas Bowman : Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design - From Francisco Inchauste, on the topic of UI that imitates realism:
It is so easy to love a certain effect and want to use that everywhere. Not all projects need to have the selections sitting on a perfectly lit wooden bookshelf. On one hand we want to be

Douglas Bowman : The Future of Self-service Banking - Spotted this link to an intriguing ATM prototype experiment by BBVA in the comments on Khoi Vihn's post on ATM design
ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been incrementally added to the machines, in order to

Douglas Bowman : The Future of Self-service Banking - Spotted this link to an intriguing ATM prototype experiment by BBVA in the comments on Khoi Vihn's post on ATM design
ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been incrementally added to the machines, in order to

Douglas Bowman : My Measures & Dimensions - I just discovered an iPhone app named My Measures & Dimensions that lets you take any photo and quickly draw dimensions on top of objects or spaces in the photo. Typically, I use a piece of scrap paper for this, and end up forgetting to bring it with

Douglas Bowman : Theme files for my WP tweet archive - Last month, I posted a short little write-up about how I created my own tweet archive. It was a quick hack, pulled together one Saturday afternoon, and fairly incomplete, at best. But the archive serves its simple purpose every now and then. I intended t

Douglas Bowman : Hello, Twitter, one year later - A year ago, today, I joined a small startup with a penchant for brevity. Many of my friends were using it. My mom had only heard mentions of it. I noted some risk, but saw greater reward. Variables were undefined. The product was still in its infancy. But

Douglas Bowman : A browsable, searchable archive of tweets - In the past, I’ve wanted to browse or search through my own tweets. Viewing my Twitter profile is one way to do that. But if I want to browse back through history, it’s a chore to go back very far. And forget about searching through my own twe

deusx : A browsable, searchable archive of tweets | stopdesign - "In the past, I’ve wanted to browse or search through my own tweets. Viewing my Twitter profile is one way to do that. But if I want to browse back through history, it’s a chore to go back very far. And forget about searching through my own tweet

Douglas Bowman : Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future - Ryan Singer on the power of hover states and non-tablet computers:
But to the geeky or trained, the desktop is a fount of power and speed. Documents are side by side, text flies from here to there, IMs are answered and dismissed, mockups reloaded, batche

Douglas Bowman : In the absence of any obvious WWDC lists to follow, I created one on my own: http://twitter.com/stop/wwdc Recs welcome. - In the absence of any obvious WWDC lists to follow, I created one on my own: http://twitter.com/stop/wwdc Recs welcome. link

Douglas Bowman : In the absence of any obvious WWDC lists to follow, I created one on my own: http://twitter.com/stop/wwdc Recs welcome. - In the absence of any obvious WWDC lists to follow, I created one on my own: http://twitter.com/stop/wwdc Recs welcome. link

Douglas Bowman : The Death of Depth: Less and Less of More and More - Good article on attention spans and what's affecting them.
As any experienced meditator knows, the mind has a mind of its own. Left free to wander, that's just what it will do. When we manage the infinite demands on our attention by trying to j